Women and New Hollywood : : Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema /

Women and New Hollywood : : Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema / / ed. by Martha Shearer, Aaron Hunter.

The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscu...

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MitwirkendeR:
Backman Rogers, Anna,
Bonner, Virginia,
Cheever, Abigail,
Forster, Nicholas,
Garve, Adrian,
Garvey, Adrian,
Godfrey, Nicholas,
Gruner, Oliver,
Hastie, Amelie,
Hunter, Aaron,
Kozma, Alicia,
Montañez Smukler, Maya,
Morrison, James,
Pearlman, Karen,
Pramaggiore, Maria,
Shearer, Martha,
HerausgeberIn:
Hunter, Aaron,
Shearer, Martha,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (230 p.) :; 4 bw, 11 color images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I History
  • 1 The Rothman Renaissance, or the Politics of Archival (Re)Discovery
  • 2 Watering the Grapevine: Jessie Maple, Self-Narration, and the Trajectory of a Career in Community
  • 3 “It Was a Little Late in the Day for All That Prissy Business”: The New Hollywood Career of Jay Presson Allen
  • 4 “We Knew and She Knew That She Was Barbra”: Streisand in the 1970s
  • 5 I Know Why: Maya Angelou and the Promise of 1970s Hollywood
  • Part II Text
  • 6 Women Editors in New Hollywood: Cutting Down on the Raging Bullshit
  • 7 Elaine May’s Awkward Age
  • 8 “She’s a Professional, Now”: Girlfriends, Creative Labor, and the Challenge of Feminist Professionalization
  • 9 A Different Image: Studies in Contrasts by Women Filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion
  • 10 Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970): A Radically Negative Feminist Aesthetic
  • Part III Theory and Criticism
  • 11 Genealogies of a Decade: Classifying and Historicizing Women of the New Hollywood
  • 12 “Women’s- Movement Anger”: Pauline Kael and New Hollywood
  • 13 Feminism, Auteurism, and the 1970s, in Theory
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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